It takes one to know one: Relationship between lie detection and psychopathy

Lyons, M, Healy, N and Bruno, D (2013) It takes one to know one: Relationship between lie detection and psychopathy. Personality and Individual Differences, 55 (6). pp. 676-679. ISSN 0191-8869

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Abstract

We investigated primary and secondary psychopathy and the ability to detect high-stakes, real-life emotional lies in an on-line experiment (N = 150). Using signal detection analysis, we found that lie detection ability was overall above chance level, there was a tendency towards responding liberally to the test stimuli, and women were more accurate than men Further, sex moderated the relationship between psychopathy and lie detection ability; in men, primary psychopathy had a significant positive correlation with the ability to detect lies, whereas in women there was a significant negative correlation with deception detection. The results are discussed with reference to evolutionary theory and sex differences in processing socio-emotional information.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1701 Psychology, 1702 Cognitive Science
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Divisions:	Natural Sciences and Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19)
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date of acceptance:	14 May 2013
Date of first compliant Open Access:	2 March 2016
Date Deposited:	02 Mar 2016 14:25
Last Modified:	26 Apr 2022 14:45
DOI or ID number:	10.1016/j.paid.2013.05.018
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3042

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